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Post by CampKohler on Jul 19, 2013 15:21:43 GMT -8
My photo of the day. I was walking up to the library today to see a scene that made me run back to the car and get a camera. I thought that they were given a kind of dialysis to insulating oil in the big green SMUD transformer that serves the library. But it turns out they are pumping mud; they are merely potholing. The library is on the boundary between two water districts, one of which thinks (evidently) that they are getting gypped, i.e. the water flows more so from one system into the other than the other way. To settle this, the interconnect point is having a meter added to measure the flow. This requires power, so they will run a conduit from the meter (off-frame to the right) to the transformer. However, since there is a PG&E gas line running beneath the transformer, they have to pothole, or dig by hand, an inspection hole to find out where things are. That's what they are doing in the photo; the small hose is a water line used to dissolve the dirt and the big one carries it away into the tank on the trailer. Now you may have heard of PG&E's troubles in San Bruno, where their gas line blew up a bunch of houses and killed people. So now we have A GAS PIPE RUNNING UNDER A POWER TRANSFORMER! Can you believe it?
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Post by CampKohler on Jul 20, 2013 12:00:04 GMT -8
I was looking for a National Geodetic Survey marker that was supposed to be on the steps of the old federal building next to city hall in downtown Sacto, when a guard said I was too close to the door. I asked him, "Do you mean to say that if I walked eight feet back to the public sidewalk, there would be a problem with me taking a picture from there?" He said, "No, but you're too close." As the entire first floor consists of a post office, I thought he was totally blowing hot air up my skirt; I could slip on my 300mm lens and count the hairs in his nose from the sidewalk if I wanted too. I have a call into Homeland Security HQ about this rubbish, but I have received no call back in two days so far.
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Post by CampKohler on Jul 21, 2013 13:03:18 GMT -8
The Sacramento Public Library has pay-per-page printing, either from the public PCs or over Wifi from one's own laptop, etc. The coin box was being emptied, and, because it is rare for the machine to be open, I took the opportunity to snap a pix of the innards with the iPhone 3gs (hence the lousy 3MP blur). I call this pix, "Justin raids the printer machine for pizza money"
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Post by CampKohler on Jul 23, 2013 15:00:25 GMT -8
This is my favorite kind of tree. (I used MS Paint to coverup the pickup and mailbox in the driveway. Honesty in photography.)
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Post by leonard on Jul 24, 2013 13:25:50 GMT -8
EverGreen? notice something?
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Post by CampKohler on Jul 24, 2013 18:21:53 GMT -8
Not just evergreen, but a Cedrus Deodara: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedrus_deodara. It is so graceful. Sleeping jet C'mon, Leonard, don't you at least have a cellphone camera? I want to see some original pix of your environment, you know, an octopus tentacle wriggling its way out of your toilet, etc.
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Post by CampKohler on Jul 26, 2013 22:10:07 GMT -8
Are YOU smiling at ME?
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Post by CampKohler on Jul 31, 2013 14:06:48 GMT -8
Literally, the sum total of Salt Flat, Texas; This is a collage assembled from Streetview pix. If you turn the camera in any other direction, you see absolutely nothing from horizon to horizon. It is truly in the middle of nowhere.
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Post by leonard on Aug 9, 2013 23:24:09 GMT -8
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Post by CampKohler on Aug 14, 2013 18:19:27 GMT -8
"Would you mind scratching my nose?"
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Post by leonard on Aug 18, 2013 21:00:47 GMT -8
daily? Attachments:
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Post by CampKohler on Aug 23, 2013 15:47:35 GMT -8
Sorry, but watering is not gonna save it.
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Post by CampKohler on Aug 27, 2013 15:58:54 GMT -8
A summer's day on the edge of the Sacramento River. The concrete blocks are from the days when docks served ships that docked here (vs. the harbor in West Sacramento) .
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